Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Marxist Feminism
- argue the main cause of
women's oppression is
capitalism
- Women's oppression performs several functions
for captialism
- women reproduce
the labour force:
through their unpaid
domestic labour
- women absorb anger:
soak up stress/frustration
from husbands
- Women are a 'reserve army' of
cheap labour: be taken on as
extra workers when needed
- see oppression of women being
linked to the exploitation of
working class
- argues that the family must be abolished